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Data Overflow: What's Your Back-up Plan?

by Mike Cobb
Dec, 2007 Issue

Article Synopsis

Have you ever been stuck in a traffic jam on the freeway and thought, "Gee, they really ought to widen this road and add a couple of lanes to handle all this traffic?" Except, you know what would happen. Those lanes would fill up with cars in no time and you'd be stuck again. Or, as someone said, "Nature abhors a vacuum." That's sort of how it is with today's hard drives. As manufacturers have been able to create more and more digital capacity in less and less physical space, users -- Mac users in particular -- have eagerly poured in more and more data to fill that extra space, often right to the limit. The problem is that it takes longer to back up these expanding data sets. Whether you edit home movies on your laptop for fun or manage a room full of servers for business, it's time for a back-up plan.

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